C\(_β\)E 400 Creativity

Introductions

• (Let’s add a face!)
• Interview your neighbor:
  • Name
  • Where you are from
  • Something that describes you
    • a characteristic, or something interesting about you.
• Report on your neighbor
• (Take a picture of the class)

Class logistics

Syllabus

Schedule

Show and tell signup

https://rb.gy/62x622

D. Lignell Show and Tell — Websites

D. Lignell Show and Tell — Neovim themes

D. Lignell Show and Tell — Food

D. Lignell Show and Tell — Motorcycle

D. Lignell Show and Tell — Shoes, shelves

D. Lignell Show and Tell — Keyboard

D. Lignell Show and Tell — Art

reposing flowers
protected from winter’s chill
bask in heat and light

D. Lignell Show and Tell — Spectral Methods

Activity

Complete the figures

Activity

Activity

• What’s the difference?
• Complete the figure: there must be something wrong with the lines, so we connect them.
• What if we said: Use these lines as a part of some larger pictures and do that in a creative way.
• Our mindset is then different. We think different. We are “given permission” to expand.
• Don’t wait to be given permission!

Discussion

What is creativity? Can you define it?

What areas of our lives does creativity apply to?

Does our creativity have to be fully our own, fully unique?

Is creativity an innate trait, or a learned skill, or both?

• Areas: just art? Work?

Activity

For names starting with letters below, write as many things as you can

• A-C: You have a spoon that is infinitely stretchy, so …
• D-F: Your middle finger has a built-in flashlight on the end of it, so you …
• G-I: You find a magic carpet that can take you anywhere, so …
• J-L: Your hair grows a foot per hour and is incredibly strong, so …
• M-O: You woke up and it was yesterday, so …
• P-R: A rope is hanging from the sky, so you …
• S-U: Today has 25 hours. So you have an extra hour to …
• V-Z: Your toes have unlimited strength, so you …

Activity

How many did you get? Examples?

What are techniques you could use to increase your count?

• Hair grows a foot per hour and is incredibly strong so:
  • You make a strong 1 inch rope, and a 2 inch rope, and a 3 inch rope. (feels like cheating, uninteresting.)
  • What are things that need to be strong:
  • Space elevator, Airplane wings, Bullet proof vests, Car bumpters

Metacognition: Consider your thought process, and learn from it.

• imagining things, and aspects of those that need strength
• And how can hair address that? (weave into a fabric, a cord, a composite)
• Different areas, “genres:” literature, art, science; Sampson’s hair?

Mental Blocks to Creativity

1. The right answer
2. That’s not logical
3. Follow the rules
4. Be practical
5. Play is frivolous

6. That’s not my area
7. Don’t be ambiguous
8. Don’t be foolish
9. To err is wrong
10. I’m not creative!

How to overcome these?